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Foreign language classes in high school creates gender abolitionists
It certainly fuels the flames.
Once you start asking why the hell the french have to gender everything, you start asking why we have to gender anything.
It's all a construct!
A machine in french is feminine. It come from latin machina (μαχανά in Greek) which is feminine (-ina suffix is feminine). Washing is just a verb so it have no influence on the "gender".
A washing machine -> Une machine à laver
Close but wrong. It's because washing is feminine.
All those years of school and lecturing from my teachers only to discover it was all lies.... thank anyway I guess.
Sadly true, Its like an on pourpouse languaje setting
French is wild, but it’s actually pretty easy to remember genders for appliances in particular. Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender. Who could misgender a swamp cooler or a blender?
Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender.
Lol what
You trying to tell me that you don’t know your toaster’s safe word?
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Just switch to German, I know it's die Geschirrspülmaschine
Das ist die Waschmaschine! Setzen, sechs!
Not knowing any German I can't tell the difference between this being correct or your putting down "the water sloshing noise machine" with a German accent.
Germans: German is such a beautiful language!
German:
It's beautiful in its precision and how it constantly clears your throat
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Un baguette, une baguette, le la.
Il y a un truc qui peut vous servir dans cette situation là.
Dites juste deux baguettes.
C'est un peu plus cher mais en tout cas, il vaut la peine et vous aurez deux baguettes à la fin.
A baguette, a baguette, the a.
There is a trick that can help you in this situation.
Just say two baguettes.
It is a little more expensive but in any case, it is worth it and you will have two baguettes at the end.
I don't think the translator worked that well here, but I think it makes it funner lmao
Hey that`s my actual french!
Take a look at the first sentence in english.
SEND THAT CUNT BACK TO HELL FROM WHENCE IT CAME
Telefrancais haunted my nightmares so badly as a child
It can be both ! You can either call it "un lave-linge" or "une machine à laver".
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And if you get it wrong you'll be forever banned from blahaj.
Can we not bring these stupid, lazy jokes into Lemmy please?
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C'mon, une machine a laver is obviously a girl! Unless you call it a lave-linge instead, in which case it's a boy.
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in my Spanish (HS) class if I don't know I just guess based off of the vibes
I've guessed correctly more often than not
I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.
It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.
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In Hebrew, the word for "stone" is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for "rock" is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.
Teacher: Time for the French, get your berets!
“Mark, please pass out the baguettes to the class. Only take one!”
Je suis enchanté
Où est le bibliothèque?
Voilà mon passport
Ah, Gérard Depardieu
Baguette, hon hon hon
Baguette, hon hon hon (hon hon) hon hon hon!
I don't know a single lick of French but somehow my brain knew this is the intro to Foux Da Fafa, a song I haven't listened to in over a decade
I'm a simple man, I see Flight of the Conchords, I upvote.
This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.
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